[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6750]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Mr. Speaker, last month the Department of Homeland Security 
reported that over 100,000 parents of U.S. born children were deported 
between 1998 and 2007. And the Homeland Security inspector stated that 
these figures are incomplete because the agency does not keep track of 
how many children each parent has.
  This past Saturday, I hosted an event in my district for families to 
come and share their stories about how they have been impacted by the 
broken immigration system. The audience on several occasions had to 
hold back their tears as they heard the stories of how families, like 
the Serrano family from Bloomington, California, have been separated 
from their parents.
  Children like those in the Serrano family are the real victims of 
this outdated immigration system that separates families.
  As Speaker Pelosi said this morning at a meeting with Latino leaders, 
``We must immediately end raids that separate families.''
  I urge my colleagues in the House and the Senate and President Obama 
to work with CHC toward comprehensive immigration reform.

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